Human intestinal parasites in the past: new findings and a review

Almost all known human specific parasites have been found in ancient feces.A review of the paleoparasitological helminth and intestinal protozoa findings available Borsoni in the literature is presented.We also report the new paleoparasitologic findings from the examination performed in samples collected in New and Old World archaeological sites.Ne

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Colonization of different biomes drove the diversification of the Neotropical Eidmanacris crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae).

The phylogeny of the cricket genus Eidmanacris is used to analyse its historical distribution and diversification in three South American biomes: Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Chiquitano Dry Forest.A morphological phylogeny with all the 29 species of Eidmanacris and the Geographically explicit Event Model (GEM) is used to explain their colonization

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